Beat Bama Food Drive

October 18, 2013

It is once
again time for the annual Auburn-Alabama “Food Fight”.For the past nineteen years, Auburn
University and the University of Alabama have competed with each other prior to
the football game to see who could
raise the most food for their local food bank.This has grown from a relatively small-scale event to become one of the
largest food drives in the State!Last
year, Auburn took home the trophy with an amazing amount of donated food –
273,650 pounds to Alabama’s 266,737.

This year’s
competition runs from October 14th
through November 25thand
it promises to be fierce.We must win
big in order to keep the trophy on the Plains, and rumor has it that Tuscaloosa
already has plans in place to prevent this from happening!Results will be announced at the
Auburn-Alabama game.

This
competition is primarily a student-organized activity, but the local community
participates in supporting Auburn
University and the local community. Many
public schools host food drives and many of the local grocery stores help to
facilitate donations of food by allowing the Food Bank to place barrels in the
store lobby during the food drive.

Locations of
collection barrels:

·Walmart
Supercenter, Auburn

·Walmart
Supercenter, Opelika

·Winn-Dixie
on Fox Run Parkway, Opelika

·Winn-Dixie
on S. College Street, Auburn

·Kroger,
Tiger Town in Opelika

·Kroger,
Auburn

·Earth
Fare, Auburn

·Always
Money, Opelika

·Lee
County Justice Center, Opelika

·Jules
Collin Smith Museum, Auburn

·Alumni
Center, S. College in Auburn

·Maurices,
Auburn

·Numerous
locations on Auburn University campus

If you would like more information or
would like to schedule an interview, please contact: